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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by naasking on Friday June 20, 2025 @08:41AM (#44327152)
This is what some EAs believe, I don't think there was ever a broad consensus on those latter claims. As such, it doesn't seem like a fair criticism of EA.
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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by adastra22 on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:38AM (#44328136)
You can’t paint a broad brush of a whole movement, but it’s true if the leadership of the EA organization. Once they went all-in on “AI x-risk”, there ceased being a meaningful difference between them and the fringe of the LW ratsphere.
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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by naasking on Friday June 20, 2025 @11:38AM (#44328765)
Which organization?

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/f6kg8T2Lp6rDqxWwG/...

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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by adastra22 on Friday June 20, 2025 @02:16PM (#44330394)
The people who run the forum you linked to.
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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by naasking on Friday June 20, 2025 @04:26PM (#44331748)
That same link puts AI risk under the "far future" category, basically the same category as "threats to global food security" and asteroid impact risks. What's unreasonable about that?
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